Support Elisha Fine, an Oct 8th Activist Building Zionist Grassroots Infrastructure

Making the grassroots Zionist infrastructure missing since October 7 in NYC and beyond.

After October 7, it became clear that Jewish communities in NYC and beyond lacked sustained grassroots infrastructure. The other side has it. We do not. They have organizers, materials, training, coordination, and continuity. We have relied too often on urgency and volunteer burnout.

That gap became unmistakable in January at Breads Bakery. When an Israeli-owned Jewish business was targeted through politicized workplace demands, Zionist activists mobilized quickly and visibly. People showed up in person, supported the business, and made it clear that Jewish public presence would not be intimidated. That response worked because relationships, materials, coordination, and judgment were already in place. That kind of turnout does not happen spontaneously. It requires infrastructure.

Hineni exists to build and sustain that infrastructure. Together with a growing team and my partners in activism, Shai Davidai and Gabe Meister, I run a grassroots Zionist organizing program based in NYC with a growing national community. We currently have a rapidly growing volunteer community of hundreds of people that requires active management, coordination, and development to remain effective and safe.

The work includes:

Organizing protests and sticker squads

Recruiting and onboarding new members

Coordinating creatives and artists

In-house printing of badges, stickers, signs, and zines

Training activists in effective messaging and media literacy

Hosting biweekly in-person activist meetings

Holding online office hours and vetting for community safety

Seeding and supporting Zionist activist projects across NYC

Running and managing the Hineni national community

Providing volunteer charity work for the wider NYC community, including soup kitchens, park cleanups, and charity drives

Convening Shabbat dinners to sustain activists beyond crisis mode

Jewish street art workshops for Zionist activists, schools, and community groups

My background includes a Master of Social Work and a Master’s degree in Jewish History from Yeshiva University, training that informs how I approach community safety, group dynamics, and oral history alongside grassroots organizing.

This work requires sustained, day-to-day time for coordination, production, safety oversight, and decision-making, and cannot be maintained at this scale as unpaid or spare-time labor.

This is independent, community-funded organizing. Contributions are not tax-deductible. Rewards are thank yous, not purchases.

If you believe Zionist grassroots work needs to exist at the same level of seriousness and coordination as our opponents, this is how you help build it.

About Elisha

Elisha Fine is a Zionist grassroots infrastructure builder, author, oral historian, and organizer for Hineni. He played a central role in organizing the international hostage and Zionist sticker movement after October 7, coordinating activists across cities and countries to maintain Jewish visibility in public space. He manages an international WhatsApp group of roughly two hundred organizers, artists, and distributors, providing coordination, safety oversight, and real-time decision making.

He was also a central organizer of the Sticker Campaign, which used low cost, rapidly produced stickers to extend Jewish public presence as posters were repeatedly torn down. This included coordinating large scale sticker distribution across New York City, covering the full route of the Israel Day Parade two years in a row.

Out of this work, Elisha helped develop the Hatikvah Sticker Collective, organizing artists into a shared creative and production infrastructure for grassroots action. Material from the campaign was exhibited in 2025 at Drawing Rooms Gallery. His work appears in the documentary TORN, and he has documented hostage poster desecration and antizionist street material for long-term preservation by the National Library of Israel. He is the author of the oral and visual history God’s Throne Is Covered with Hostage Stickers: Testimonies from the October 7th Sticker Campaign

All funds go to me to support a full schedule of grassroots organizing and no outside organizations